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BUILDING ENVELOPE

The existing facility was originally a one-story single family wood
frame home that has been renovated and added onto many times to
its present day function for DCM of administrative offices and housing
and training facilities for homeless families.

The original home has been expanded but is still a wood frame
structure on grade with a pitched roof with asphalt shingles that now
has a 2nd floor loft area. A second building in the rear, called “Hagar
House”, currently not directly connected to the original structure, has
been constructed of CMU bearing walls with steel bar floor and roof
joists and concrete floors and a flat membrane roof.
For energy efficiency, it is always best to start with the building’s
envelope (the skin, openings and roof of a building’s exterior). The
more efficient the envelope, the less energy will be required for
conditioning of the interior spaces and the spaces will be much more
comfortable to occupy.

Another goal of this approach is to make the ongoing utility costs as
low as possible (and thus concentrate more of the budget on
services), as well as to make the buildings more comfortable and
easy to maintain.

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